Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Levi Strauss & Co. was founded in 1800’s and became successful
selling blue jeans to many people who probably carried guns openly. Now
it looks as though they’re prepared to throw gun carrying customers
under the bus.

Levi Strauss: Do Not Bring Your Legal, Concealed Carry Firearms Into Our Stores
Levi Strauss & Co. CEO Chip Bergh is posting an open letter to
customers, asking law-abiding citizens to refrain from bringing their
concealed carry firearms into Levi Strauss stores.
Bergh said his letter represents a “request” rather than a “mandate” or
all-out ban, but he hopes customers will honor the request and enter
Levi Strauss stores unarmed.

Via Mike "Great! Bill Warner, Ph.D. Is a retired science prof who taught at
Vanderbilt and NCSU. He is one of my favorite authors and lecturers.
Warner blows away the fashionable PC version of Islam with facts and
stats. You can find his books and a few CDs under Political Islam and Amazon.com."

Why are so many Muslim refugees coming to the US? Why do so few
persecuted Christians come? The answer is the position of the churches.
The biggest door into US society is the church door. The Christians and
Jews love to attend interfaith gatherings where they sit and nod their
heads yes to all that the Muslims say.

But the Christian and
Jewish leaders are ignorant about Islam. They know nothing about the
Islamic doctrine of Christian and Jew hatred. But what is worse is that
they refuse to learn.

Christian leaders have developed a
doctrine of the coward to justify their pious ignorance and fear. They
are all about turning the other cheek, loving their enemies, and doing
nothing while waiting for Jesus to return. They are incapable of
boldness and courage. Wimps all (well, about 95% of them).

And
if you are not a Christian, why aren’t you concerned with the greatest
human rights tragedy happening today—the killing of religious minorities
in Islamic lands? Why can’t persecuted Christians come as refugees to
America? When will Christians care about the persecution of their own
brothers and sisters?

What has happened to us (Christians, Jews,
Buddhists, atheists and all others) that we are no longer able to have
moral outrage? Righteous anger?

It appears that Alexandria's lawmakers have taken the pulse of their constituents and decided that trying to move the monument would not be good for their political careers! They have REFUSED Alexandria City Council's request to petition the legislature for permission to remove the monument. "Appomattox" will remain right where he should!

The following is taken from Doug Giles’ best-seller, PUSSIFICATION: The Effeminization Of The American Male

Back in the caveman days, if some cave bastard from some other tribe tried to steal a man’s brontosaurus ribs, or the wheel he just invented, or his hot cave-woman, or they tried to harm his snaggle-toothed cave brood, the man under attack would find the nearest pterodactyl bone and commence beating the living crap out of said thieve-nous cave thug.

And he would usually beat the moron to death. Like in splat.

And if he didn’t kill the cave thug, he would’ve definitely left one of those massive, cartoon-sized lumps on their head.

The aforementioned was what was considered normal for man up until the 1960s when the man-haters began the systematic emasculation of the male collective, trying to eradicate any and all semblance of this primal, protective funk from their constituent junk and turn them into a squealy, 21st-century-hipster liberal.

Indeed, primitive man understood that to him belonged the responsibility not only to provide for himself and his family, but also the duty of beating the shit out of any man or animal that threatened his family’s existence.

There are lots of questions surrounding a fire that gutted a home on Johnson Street in Plant City overnight.

Along
with heavy damage, anti-Trump graffiti was sprayed on the house, inside
and out. The family who lives there was spending the night with
relatives, but Navy veteran Matthew Smith says his home was targeted
because he is a Donald Trump supporter.

"It's not what I expected out of America," says Smith. "It should be us figuring problems out together."

Smith flies three flags in front of his house: the American flag, the POW flag, and the Navy flag.

Donald Trump praised America's coal workers throughout the recent
presidential campaign. And he vowed to get the coal industry back on its
feet. Now that a Trump Administration is poised to take office on
January 20, it's realistic to believe that relief could be on the way
for decimated coal communities.

You wouldn't know this from the mainstream media, however. Too often,
pundits belittle the impact that Obama administration regulations have
had on coal. We're told that it isn't federal rules stifling coal
production; instead, it's only market competition that has been
responsible for coal's decline.
This is the administration's line, and it is nonsense.

Newt Gingrich was on the Stuart Varney show this week to speak about
what the Democrats have been up to since the election. He clearly thinks
the party has lost its mind. And he makes a very good case!

Newt says:

“The British under Thatcher used to have what they called
the loony left. Well you look at this recount thing and then you look
at the potential for Keith Ellison to become the Democratic National
Committee chairman… And you just say to yourself. I mean, this is a
party which is running off of the edge and will presently be in la la
land. It’s amazing.”

After years of slowing earnings growth and little in the way of
excitement for many Wall Street analysts, many are now hopeful that
President-elect Donald Trump will finally make things interesting.

When
collating data for the Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Analyst Index — a
proprietary measure of growth across different sectors of the S&P
500 — the firm included a question this month on what the election of
Donald Trump will mean for the industries covered by those surveyed.
Turns out, they are rather optimistic.

"This month, we asked
analysts to comment on how the results of the U.S. election will affect
companies in their respective sectors," the team led by Avisha Thakkar
writes in the new note. "While their responses suggest that there is
still uncertainty about the sector-level impact, the majority of sectors
are anticipating favorable effects," they say, adding that expectations
of lower tax rates and economic stimulus are among key reasons for the
favorable outlook.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) is under consideration to serve as the secretary of Veterans Affairs in Donald Trump's administration, ABC News reported Wednesday.

A Palin aide told ABC News
that Palin told Trump transition officials in recent days that she
feels "as though the megaphone I have been provided can be used in a
productive and positive way to help those desperately in need."

Palin posted the ABC News article saying she was under consideration for the VA position to her Facebook page on Wednesday.

She
also shared a post from her son-in-law, Dakota Meyer, a Medal of Honor
recipient, that touted her support for the country's troops.

The four roots of Islamic violence and Jihad exposed
here are not poverty, discrimination, the Crusades, or Colonialism. They
come straight from the Koran and other sacred doctrinal texts of Islam.

Karl Troutwein, in his 2009 book, The 9/11 Verses:
Terrorist Teachings in the Koran, describes four main elements in the
Koran and the Sunna (the words and actions of Muhammad) that when
combined result in a high probability of Islamic violence.

The first is “An attitude of anger and hate towards non-Muslims.”

This is corroborated by the analysis Dr. Bill Warner in his writings and books on “Political Islam.”

I have obtained some additional information on Mark McConnell that will be of interest to all. After my last article, “Mark McConnell“,
it seems that McConnell kept saying that the information was readily
available. He never really addressed whether he was an informant, or
not. He simply sidestepped the issue of the role he played.

So, let’s separate the issues between what he said and whether he was
an informant. To do so, we simply look to the Court record and see
what transpired, on two separate occasions, during the trial of the
United States of America v. Ammon Bundy, et al. The verdict was not guilty on all but one count.

From the rough draft transcripts of the trial, September 21, 2016.
Mr. Gabriel is one of the prosecuting attorneys. Beckert is an Oregon
State Police officer. Mr. Mumford was Ammon Bundy’s attorney. Yu will
not that the government prosecuting attorney intentionally outed
McConnell as a government informant. I will leave the reader to
speculate as to why they would do this.

Big day on Thursday for Indiana and the great workers of that wonderful state.We will keep our companies and jobs in the U.S. Thanks Carrier

President-elect Donald Trump's team has reached a deal to keep hundreds of Carrier jobs in Indiana.

CNBC
broke the story, citing sources in reporting the deal with United
Technologies Tuesday evening, which will keep close to 1,000 factory
jobs in Indiana. The network says the deal will include new inducements
from the state and was spearheaded by Vice President-elect Gov. Mike
Pence.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. President Gary Cohn and former Massachusetts
Governor Mitt Romney were meeting Tuesday with Donald Trump as the
president-elect and his team consider candidates to fill out key roles
in the administration.

Cohn arrived at Trump Tower in Manhattan
Tuesday afternoon for a meeting with Trump and Vice President-elect Mike
Pence. Trump was then scheduled to go to dinner with Romney, the 2012
Republican presidential nominee who’s a contender for secretary of
state. Another potential choice for the nation’s top diplomat, Tennessee
Senator Bob Corker, met with Trump earlier in the day.

As he
moves through the list of high-level administration jobs he has to fill,
Trump on Tuesday announced he’ll nominate Georgia Representative Tom
Price, a leading critic of Obamacare, to head the Department of Health
and Human Services. A person familiar with the transition said he’s
poised to pick former U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, the wife of
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, to be transportation
secretary.

What is really disturbing is just how far politics has fallen. The
FBI released Huma Abedin 302, or the notes on her interview with the
FBI. It is becoming painfully clear why Obama would never indict Hillary
and may provide her a pardon to protect himself. Abedin told FBI agents
she “had to tell the White House” every
time Hillary Clinton changed her email address to make sure Obama’s
device would accept it. Therefore, Obama outright lied saying the first
time he heard of Hillary’s private emails was when the New York Times
broke the story.

Abedin says she had to notify Obama of Hillary’s private emails so he
knew what she was doing. The trail of evidence with Norway and Obama
being given the Noble Peace Prize
for nothing means that Obama was clearly a co-conspirator with
Hillary. No wonder the FBI and Justice Department have stood down. They
had to otherwise Obama could be criminally charged as well.

A Baptist college in Alabama has blocked the formation of a Young
Americans for Freedom (YAF) chapter, in part because the group’s
founding document is too aggressively anti-communist.

Students at Samford University have been petitioning to have their
new YAF chapter recognized by the school, but found their statement of
purpose is an obstacle to recognition.

YAF’s founding document is based on the Sharon Statement, a declaration
of conservative principles adopted by 100 young conservatives in 1960
during a meeting at the home of William F. Buckley.

The statement
notably takes an extremely hostile posture towards communism, in tune
with its creation at the height of the Cold War.

“The forces of international Communism are, at present, the greatest
single threat to [American] liberties[, and] the United States should
stress victory over, rather than coexistence with, this menace,” the
statement says.

This hostility to communism caused a faculty committee to veto their
petition to create an on-campus YAF chapter, according to Samford
conservatives.

“We would love to see Sheriff Joe Arpaio put in charge of the Department
of Homeland Security or Border Patrol,” Mr. Gheen said. “We put that
idea online last week and received a huge positive response.”

Donald Trump’s interview Tuesday with Rep. Michael T. McCaul for
secretary of homeland security set off alarms for illegal immigration
opponents who view the congressman as weak on border security and
latently pro-amnesty.

Mr. McCaul, Texas Republican and chairman of
the House Homeland Security Committee, has repeatedly riled
conservatives with what they describe as ineffective posturing against
President Obama’s lax enforcement of immigration laws.

His chief
offense was co-authoring the 2015 Secure Our Borders First Act, which
conservatives and activists reviled as a fig leaf to Democrats that
included tough language but ignored the estimated 11 million illegal
immigrants living in the U.S. and kept too much decision-making in the
hands of the Obama administration.

“We certainly hope that Donald
Trump would not reward a deceptive pro-amnesty lawmaker like Michael
McCaul with a Cabinet position,” said William Gheen, president of
Americans for Legal Immigration PAC. “That would be very disappointing
to all of us that believed his campaign promises to secure our borders
and deport millions of illegal immigrants under current U.S. laws.”

Recently I made a few comments about the world’s self-identified “elite”, and also about the migrants that are plaguing Europe.

Happily, I was able to do some one-stop shopping on both of these
topics when I was in New York to attend a very elitist and Globalist
conference. I’m not going to name it because its organizers/sponsors are
business partners of mine. And since they spent multimillions putting
it together, and I pretty much despised their invitees, I’m not about to
identify it exactly. Just let me say that the conclave has aspirations
to become another Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderberg, Bohemian
Grove, Atlantic Council, or Davos. Same kind of people, same ideas.
Uniformly bad ideas. But ideas that the public has been brainwashed into
thinking are good.

A lot of people are afraid these groups control the world, or at
least governments. They don’t. They’re social gatherings for high level
government employees and NGO types who like to network, and feel
relevant. And lots of their minions, who enjoy the rich food, pretending
they’re big shots too, while listening to pontifications by actual big
shots. They hope they can cozy up to them, close enough to ride a richer
gravy train.
The avowed purpose of this conclave was to “build the public-private
partnership”—the exact definition of fascism. So there were also lots of
big league corporate types who want to “make a difference”, and rich
guys who want to be known for something besides having money.

The Somali refugee responsible for attacking young
Americans at Ohio State University was deliberately imported into the
country by the nation’s federal immigration policy–yet the scale and
impact of immigration from undeveloped, foreign cultures is still a
surprise to some politicians.

Since 2001, the United States has permanently resettled nearly 100,000 migrants from Somalia–a nation where the prevalence rate of Female Genital Mutilation for women and girls ages 15 to 49 is 98 percent, and where homosexuality can be punishable by death.
In a single year, a Republican-led Congress funded visas for nearly
300,000 (temporary and permanent) Muslim migrants, which is a population
that is nearly twice the size of the entire population of Dayton,
Ohio.

The federal government invited Abdul
Razak Ali Artan, 18, into the United States as a refugee, according to
reports. Artan reportedly came to the U.S. in 2014, and his refugee
status allowed him to fill a coveted slot at Ohio State University. It
also allowed him to obtain federal benefits, and eventually would have
given him quick access to citizenship, the voting booth, and the ability
to bring over foreign relatives through chain migration.

Yet some
Republican lawmakers seem unaware of the social and cultural impact
that large-scale Muslim migration has had in their own backyards.

Trump won Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Florida, states won by Obama in '08 /'12

President-elect Donald Trump is set to embark on a tour to thank supporters who carried him to the White House.

A
source in the Trump camp confirmed to NBC News Tuesday that Trump's
"Thank You Tour" is set to begin on Thursday with a rally in Cincinnati.
During
the campaign, Trump's rallies often drew thousands of people and were
often broadcast live. Trump won Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and
Florida, states won by President Obama in 2008 and 2012.

Labeling journalist 'Islamophobe' scares off major sponsor for conference

It doesn’t take much to get one’s self branded a racist in Michigan these days.

Donald Trump pulled off an upset win in the state that has gone
Democrat in the previous two presidential elections, but that hasn’t
stopped the entrenched establishment from demonizing those who hold
Trump-like views on immigration.

The Southern Poverty Law Center is teaming up with local Detroit
media to paint a Maryland-based journalist as an anti-Muslim “extremist”
and “Islamophobe” simply because he has produced fact-based research on
the U.S. government’s refugee resettlement program.

James Simpson has been invited to speak at the annual Business
Roundtable Breakfast in Oakland County, one of several counties in
Michigan that have been pummeled with refugees from the Middle East over
the last eight years of the Obama administration.

President-elect Donald Trump has apparently made another addition to
his White House administration. The role of Health and Human Services
Secretary has been given to Republican Rep. Tom Price from Georgia, reports The Washington Post.

Price,
an orthopedic surgeon, has been a longtime opponent of President
Obama's Affordable Care Act. Recently, he said that under
Obamacare, "The American people are paying more for health care and
getting less – less access, less quality, and fewer choices."

A roaring 500-acre fire is threatening structures in downtown
Gatlinburg, Tennessee, where officials have ordered mandatory
evacuations. Roads near Great Smoky Mountains National Park are closed,
as firefighters battle the flames and gusty winds.

“It’s very dangerous weather conditions,” Dana Soehn with the National Park Service told WATE.

“We’ve had trees coming down, limbs coming down and the fire is continuing to grow.”

Residents
have been evacuated to a Red Cross shelter at the Gatlinburg Community
Center, while Rocky Top Sports World has also been converted into a
shelter.

Officials suspect arson in the fire, which started over the weekend.

Blazes were too close for comfort for people staying at the Park Vista Hilton hotel. They shared harrowing images on Twitter.

Monday, November 28, 2016

Apparently missing the brutal industrial slavery that flourished among them, New England abolitionists, “looking about with an eye long-trained to detect sinners,” began a moral crusade against the aristocrats of the American South who they imagined were mistreating their own laborers. All the ills of Northern society, social, agricultural and financial, were found to originate with the evil slaveholders.
Bernhard Thuersam, www.Circa1865.com The Great American Political Divide

New England’s Industrial Slaves

“[The] first significant result of the coming of finance-industrial capitalism to [New England] in the years between 1815 and 1844, was the rise of a new and powerful group of business leaders, and the creation of a new and uniquely dependent body of workers.

A decline in commerce made capital available and scattered cotton mills about wherever water power could be found. Profits soared. Successful groups . . . bought up power sites, built machine shops, laid out and built whole factory towns, speculated in lands, projected canals and railroads, and found use for their surplus capital in banking and insurance.

[The Northern merchants] harsh old Calvinistic beliefs gave way to more rational and dignified ones, and their political needs found expression in the conservative doctrines of the Whig party. A new aristocracy of growing wealth and power had come into being.

The young folks who came down from the country to work in the mills soon learned that their move meant . . . Long hours . . . in a poorly ventilated, lint-filled room spent at a single task . . . They also learned that bitter competition between factories in period of depression meant longer hours, more spindles to tend, and reduced wages. To protest or to strike brought lockouts and black lists. By 1844 most New England girls had chosen the latter course, and French Canadian and Irish girls had taken their places.

Workers looked “round them upon the princely palaces and gaudy equipages of the rich” who consumed the fruits of the poor man’s labor without adding to “the common stock a grain of wheat or a blade of grass.”

And when the right to organize was denied by the courts, workers solemnly proclaimed that “the freemen of the North are now on a level with the slaves of the South, with no other privilege than laboring, that drones may fatten on your life blood.”

Sympathy for the workers was [intense]. “There is not a State’s prison or house of correction in New England where the hours of labor are so long, the hours for meals so short, and the ventilation so neglected as in the cotton mills with which I am acquainted,” wrote Dr. Josiah C. Curtis in his report to the American Medical Association.

“Where is the humanity,” asked another. “It is swallowed up in gain – for the almighty dollar, and for this, poor girls are enslaved and kept in a state little better than machinery, [but when they become unable to work they] are laid to one side and new [human] machinery procured.”

And what became of the girl who was laid aside? The Daily Democrat tells us that “while those who reaped the profits” dropped “their heads on the cologne-scented handkerchiefs on prayer and thanksgiving every Sabbath day,” the poor mill-girl came “to Boston to die in the brothel.”

“ . . . At the North, the master has a lash more potent than the whipthong to stimulate the energies of his white slaves: fear of want.” And because the Northern worker did not see his chains, he was none the less a slave.

As one man put it: “When capital has gotten thirteen hours of labor daily out of a being it can get nothing more. It would be a very poor speculation in an industrial point of view to own the [laborers], for the trouble and expense of providing for times of sickness and old-age would more than counterbalance the difference between the price of wages and the expense of boarding and clothing . . . “

“Wages,” added Orestes Brownson, “is a cunning device of the devil for the benefit of the tender conscience, who would retain all the advantages of the slave system, without the expense, trouble and odium of being slaveholders.”

Perhaps nothing tilted the 2016 election in Trump's favor more than the media.

Where does the Leftmedia go after a fed up electorate thoroughly repudiates their inaccurate polls, their dismissal of ordinary Americans' legitimate concerns, and their transparently biased
efforts to undermine GOP president-elect Donald Trump? They double-down
with a propaganda-based smear campaign, using the phrases “alt-right”
and “fake news” as their vehicles.

Leftmedia group-think is once again the rage. A sampler of recent headlines says it all:

The Washington Post: “The alt-right supported Trump. Now its members want him to satisfy their demands.”

While the New York Times and other propaganda outlets are attacking citizen journalists as "fake news" and other outlets are labeling us as "Russian propaganda tools," the history of the New York Times speaks for itself as it was obviously using propaganda to propel the late Fidel Castro to power.

While Castro defied the united States and instituted a Communist
regime which isolated his people in large part from the West, it appears
that he had allies in the West who looked to prop him up. One of those
outlets was The New York Times.

While the New York Times and other propaganda outlets are attacking citizen journalists as "fake news" and other outlets are labeling us as "Russian propaganda tools," the history of the New York Times speaks for itself as it was obviously using propaganda to propel the late Fidel Castro to power.

While Castro defied the united States and instituted a Communist
regime which isolated his people in large part from the West, it appears
that he had allies in the West who looked to prop him up. One of those
outlets was The New York Times.

Roger Stone: Now suddenly Jill Stein who couldn’t raise
two cents, has now raised five and a half or seven million dollars, we
have to presume this is Soros money or otherwise Hillary money. Now
Hillary I think increases her chances of prosecution by acting this way.

According to sources in the Interior Ministry, the Viminale Plan
foresees enforcement agents and detention measures for those who resist
requisition of their premises for migrants.

The Interior Ministry in the figure of Angelino Alfano is preparing
to requisition the real estate of Italians to place migrants.

It will be done, explains Il Giornale, beginning only as of
December 4 or after a consultation referendum, in order to avoid
allowing protests by citizens to influence the outcome of the vote.

Because it is indeed the protests that worry Alfano. The barricades
of Goro and Gorino against the requisition of a hotel in order to place
fifteen refugees for days has occupied the front pages of newspapers and
embarrassed the government. The secret services have already made a
filing on the cities where it is possible for the citizens to organize
in committees to resist the refugees.

The requisitions in fact, will go forward, and according to l’Opinione,
which cites sources in the Interior Ministry, the executive would be
ready to take drastic measures against those citizens who would resist
the assignment of private real estate to the migrants.

The Wisconsin Elections Commission set a timetable Monday for a
recount of the presidential election but rejected a request for a hand
recount. The commission is made up of three Democrats and three
Republicans. It adopted the recount plans unanimously.

Meanwhile a Wisconsin insider on 4Chan said to expect the recount to expose massive DNC fraud.
The Anonymous “insider” says the recount will reveal people out of
state voting, non citizens voting, people voting numerous times, and
nursing home violations.

Hillary Clinton's legal counsel gives some confusing advice. Not at all. :) You think he might be worried that the "recount in Durham County, where 90,000 early votes suddenly appeared late on Election Night to give Cooper the victory# may not be kosher.....? :)

Democratic super-lawyer Marc Elias, known for his expertise in recount and election law, has demanded Republican Gov. Pat McCrory drop his calls for a North Carolina recount, on behalf of the apparently victorious Democrat Roy Cooper.

Meanwhile, Elias is charging ahead on Clinton's behalf in an anticipated three-state recount that is far less likely to change the result of the presidential election.

Jill Stein has everything she needs to launch a presidential
recount. She's got the cash, the grassroots fervor and the spotlight of
an adoring media. But there's one thing she needs to overturn Trump's
victory: a calendar.

Stein missed Pennsylvania's deadline to file for a
voter-initiated recount. That blown deadline is a huge blow for
Democrats who have pinned their hopes on recounts in the Keystone State,
Michigan and Wisconsin.

"According to Wanda Murren, spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Department of State," the Philadelphia Inquirer reported Monday, "the deadline for a voter-initiated recount was Monday, Nov. 21."

A party obsessed with race won’t have much luck reaching out to non-elite whites.

Democratic pundits are calling on their party to court working-class
and non-coastal whites in the wake of this month’s electoral rout. But
the Democratic Party is now dominated by identity politics, which
defines whites, particularly heterosexual males, as oppressors of every
other population in the U.S. Why should the targets of such thinking
embrace an ideology that scorns them?

The most absurd Democratic meme to emerge from the party’s ballot-box defeat is the claim that it is DonaldTrump, rather than Democrats, who engages in “aggressive, racialized discourse,” in the words of a Los Angeles Times op-ed. By contrast, President Barack Obama sought a “post-racial, bridge-building society,” according to New York Times
reporter Peter Baker. Obama’s post-racial efforts have now “given way
to an angry, jeering, us-against-them nation,” writes Baker, in a
front-page “news” story.

Tell that valedictory for “post-racial bridge-building” to police
officers, who have been living through two years of racialized hatred
directed at them in the streets, to the applause of many Democratic
politicians.

The 21st century leftists have proven themselves to be utterly
ignorant and incapable time and time again. And I believe there are
specific reasons for this that has to do with their very core nature.
The following demonstrates all the loser characteristics embedded in
their psyches that draws the leftists to their equalist beliefs. And
because they compensate their own shortcomings with their ideology
rather improving themselves, it ultimately leads to a cycle of loserdom
which they cannot escape from.
For the sake of simplicity, I will group liberals, progressives,
SJW’s, feminists, degenerates, and all the rest under the title of
‘leftist’.

As most things are in life, the
meaning of the Confederate flag (CF) is much more nuanced than modern
society will have you believe. In short, it is not the racist,
treasonous symbol mainstream America makes it out to be. Rather, it is a
symbol that celebrates Southern heritage and, specifically, the
uniquely Southern sacrifice for this country, the United States.

What we call today the CF is really
the Second Confederate Navy Jack (1863-1865). In square form, the flag
was the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia. The design, the
blue St. Andrew’s Cross on a red field, became the most recognizable
symbol associated with the Confederacy. This piece will not address the
legitimacy of the Confederate States of America (CSA), nor will it
assess the merits of several states’ secession from the US. This debate
exceeds the confines of this piece, not only due to its lengthiness but
also due to its minimal bearing on the meaning of the CF today, as I
will elaborate.

As Cuban dissidents flood the streets of Miami with tears of joy,
recalling their painful experiences as victims of the Castro regime,
world leaders, buckling under the weight of their own moral cowardice,
continue to heap praise on a savage dictator who censored, abused,
tortured, imprisoned, and killed his people mercilessly for six decades.

From President Obama’s diplomatic appeasement to Prime Minister
Trudeau’s fawning eulogy, Fidel Castro’s tyranny has been swept under
the rug in service of crude historical revisionism.

As The Daily Wire’s Harry Khachatrian noted,
the Canadian leader expressed “deep sorrow” over the loss of
“remarkable leader” Fidel Castro. Trudeau’s sycophantic words were later
mocked by thousands of disappointed Canadians on Twitter with the quip
#TrudeauEulogies.

“Only 43% of the Marine Corps total aircraft inventory is currently considered flyable”

The Washington think tank that helped forge the defense views of
President-elect Donald Trump says in a report that the armed forces are
too small to win major wars.

The Heritage Foundation’s “2017 Index
U.S. Military Strength” gives the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine
Corps a collective grade of “marginal” for total power compared with a
top score of “very strong.” It stamps its lowest grade individually on
the Army, which it judges “weak.”

“At present, the U.S. military
is two-thirds the size it needs to be and, of that two-thirds, only
one-third is at acceptable levels of readiness,” said Heritage’s Dakota
Wood, a former Marine Corps war planner who edited the index.

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.